Hacker News: marc_io

New comment by marc_io in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

marc_io — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:54:56 +0000

It isn't. This would be a plugin inside EmDash.

New comment by marc_io in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

marc_io — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:17:36 +0000

Oh, at least here in Brazil, people still find it strange if you say you don't have an Instagram account. There's this idea of being a bit weird for not following this trend.

New comment by marc_io in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

marc_io — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:31:14 +0000

This one is a keeper.

New comment by marc_io in "Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)"

marc_io — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:56:35 +0000

He was just a kid, man.

New comment by marc_io in "Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?"

marc_io — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:07:13 +0000

Pinegrow is awesome, thanks for keeping it alive.

New comment by marc_io in "Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?"

marc_io — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:06:13 +0000

There's an app called Wappler that was developed by the same folks from DMXzone, which was quite well-known for its Dreamweaver add-ons at the time. It's the closer you will find of a direct successor.

New comment by marc_io in "Beautiful, boring, and without soul"

marc_io — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:22:43 +0000

Sometimes, meaning (which is heavily connected to the way people feel) is all that makes people survive. Ask Viktor Frankl.

New comment by marc_io in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

marc_io — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:05:12 +0000

Twitter/X had a hard time in Brazil recently and was temporarily banned. Meta is now feeling more intense pushback from Brazil's judiciary power.

New comment by marc_io in "WordPress Is in Trouble"

marc_io — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:04:31 +0000

Generate a static site from WordPress itself with the Simply Static plugin.

New comment by marc_io in "WordPress Is in Trouble"

marc_io — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:57:07 +0000

Publii is another one with static generation capabilities (https://getpublii.com)

New comment by marc_io in "The Static Site Paradox"

marc_io — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:50:39 +0000

> Or you could just use publii, an office suite of your choice, or type bad html and css by hand, then pass raw files on very cheap hosting providers, enjoying a clunky, and sometimes ugly, "website".

WordPress folks are working to enable static generation using WordPress Playground. It will work pretty much like Publii does today.

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/issues/707

New comment by marc_io in "The Cleantech Revolution It's exponential, disruptive, and now"

marc_io — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:01:14 +0000

I hope the outlook becomes reality.

New comment by marc_io in "Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today"

marc_io — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:23 +0000

The power of WordPress lies in its community, branding, and marketplace. The options you mentioned simply don't compete in these areas.

New comment by marc_io in "Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today"

marc_io — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:52:43 +0000

The problem is that right now the pathways to quickly bootstrap a WordPress site with a good enough, customized theme are hidden under SaaS providers, like hosting companies. Use InstaWP or ZipWP, for example, and you can start in just minutes.

New comment by marc_io in "Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub"

marc_io — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:55:08 +0000

This is great as it is, but I would love to see support for posts in plain HTML. There's a huge potential for static sites generated by Webflow and other platforms like it. Hosting costs are the biggest issue with these platforms. It would help so many designers and marketing teams that don't have access to a developer or simply don't want (or don't know how) to set up themselves a Jekyll, Next.js, Astro, Hugo, or Nuxt website.

New comment by marc_io in "Show HN: Comflowy – A ComfyUI Tutorial for Beginners"

marc_io — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:43:24 +0000

You can use Pinokio: https://pinokio.computer/

New comment by marc_io in "CSS Is Fun Again"

marc_io — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:06:13 +0000

Wappler and Pinegrow are the closest, I think. Desktop apps with visual authoring capabilities, while also supporting plain code.

New comment by marc_io in "CSS Is Fun Again"

marc_io — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:03:45 +0000

Bricks Builder on the WordPress side is really interesting for this.

New comment by marc_io in "CSS Is Fun Again"

marc_io — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:58:04 +0000

Given the increasing number of people using page builders and no-code tools, these novelties are, in practice, either invisible or delayed for a large portion of websites until it makes business sense for the companies behind the software powering these tools.

New comment by marc_io in "Ask HN: Local Mac Wysiwyg HTML Editor? (for “Lo-fi” website)"

marc_io — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 13:27:41 +0000

Logseq, which is a note-taking app much like Obsidian, can also generate a static site from its notes natively. It has a mobile app, which is very helpful when you are on the move. It is quite idiosyncratic, but it works well if you know your way around it. https://discuss.logseq.com/t/how-to-publish-your-logseq-as-a....

Another option is Pinegrow, an NW.js desktop-based website development app that uses plain HTML, CSS, and JS, just like Dreamweaver. Its UI is quite complicated, but you can hide what's not necessary for you. It also includes a bare-bones CMS, but it's not mandatory to use. It's not open-source, though.